100 people with rare cancers who attended same NJ high school demand answers

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By April 11, Al Lupiano had heard from more than 100 former Colonia High School attendees who had been diagnosed with rare cancers.

In 1999, when he was just 27, Al Lupiano was diagnosed with a "very rare" and abnormally large brain tumor for someone his age called Acoustic Neuroma . Last summer, Lupiano's wife and now-deceased sister were diagnosed with rare forms of brain cancer on the same day.

By April 11, he had heard from more than 100 former Colonia High School attendees who had been diagnosed with rare cancers. Woodbridge Mayor John McCormack told the outlet that his office initiated conversations with the Woodbridge Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Environmental Protection and the Agency for Toxic Substance Disease Registry about opening investigations into potential radiation exposure stemming from the high school's campus. McCormack said the town wants local and federal involvement in the investigation.

It "was an entry point for African uranium ores known as pitchblende" that were "imported for use in the nation’s early atomic energy program, were assayed at the Middlesex Sampling Plant and then shipped to other sites for processing," according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New York Division.

 

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There is no correlation to the school until it is shown that locals who did not attend the school do not have a significant number of these rare cancers.

Blame the senate who approved the build. Because many Builders just keeps building on grounds that are contaminated. Many citizens do not have knowledge of what they are sleeping on and breathing. Looks like US is silently killing their own

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